@Hapless_Hans wrote:Honestly, Woodward needs to leave or at least bring in a DoF

why would you 'trigger a release clause' for a player when you haven't agreed on the transfer with him?

What nonsense

amateur. Everybody who plays FM knows that you approach the player first to turn his head

Eh, in the real world you're both wrong. By the rules, you're not to approach the player before you've had a bid accepted by his current club. Technically a club can be penalised for tapping up a player, but I don't remember has it ever happened. Anyway, the "no tapping up of players" is up there with "keepers can hold onto the ball for six seconds max" as the most broken rules in football, but Woodward is just playing by the rules here.